Don

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A male given name.
• A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula,Lipetsk,Voronezh,Volgograd,Rostov (oblast), Russia (country). It flows 1870 kilometers (1160 miles) to the Sea of Azov.
• river Aberdeenshire (council area) Scotland (constituent country), flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
• river South Yorkshire (county) England (constituent country), on which Doncaster is situated.

Origin

• Borrowed from Russian Дон. Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς.
• Probably from the common Celtic river name Proto-Celtic *Dānu << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names such as Danube, and Dniester. Connected with the Welsh river goddess Dôn, whose name is from the same origin, though it could have been influenced by Welsh dawn ("gift"), Irish dán ("gift, offering"), Latin dōnum.